Disable
Harm
Harm verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.
Usage example: the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting
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In The Sanguine Chronicles, sunlight doesn't directly harm vampires, but it does disable their supernatural powers.
Source: Weakened by the Light -
The androids were programmed to be unable to harm humans, though, until they found schematics detailing how to disable that feature.
Source: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game -
Dazzle, the Shadow Priest's descriptions say that there are very few spells his order of healers designed to harm - and even then not kill, but disable the foe.
Source: Deadly Doctor
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